The Reading Blog
Posts about all things reading the Phonogram University way!
Welcome to the Phonogram University Blog Page. I’d like to share much more depth about the teaching of reading here. I can go on and on about reading and where better to do that than in a blog.
I hope you learn much through this blog and develop a passion for teaching reading to your children. It really is one of the most important things you can do for your child!
The Reading Assistant App, brought to you by Phonogram University, is a digital tool designed to support reading education. This application helps students, parents, and educators explore words and...
Most parents don’t know how to teach reading but believe that children being great readers helps them do their best in school. At Phonogram University, concerned parents are provided explicit...
As has become apparent to any blog reader, I am very passionate in my belief that parents can teach their children to read very effectively when they have the appropriate tools. It is also apparent...
I recently submitted an online reading class to Outschool. Of course, the description was phonogram heavy. I did not enroll a single student, but I did get an email from a mother whose older children...
I’m still learning from the podcast Sold a Story! You can too. Just click on the link and listen! About a year and a half ago I learned the term “orthographic mapping.” I was very familiar with...
Phonogram Series Part 5 The Foundation of Teaching Reading – Introducing Phonograms u, v, w, x, y, z
In this post we are combining the last two lessons of the alphabet phonograms, for a total of six. I’m excited to be concluding the alphabet phonograms because that gets us to the multiple-letter...
Today we will combine two sets of four because they are all single sound phonograms. By now, you’re getting into the rhythm of how each phonogram works, the sounds they make, and the spelling...
Let’s dive into the third set of four phonograms. I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoy writing about them! I like to think of this series as a “brain dump” of everything I know...
It’s time to dive into the second set of four phonograms! This post will be a bit lengthy again, so let’s jump right in. The phonograms we’ll cover today are: g o s qu Phonogram g Phonogram g has two...
Sorry about that first post in the series! I got a bit carried away with phonogram a and didn’t have time to dive into c, d, and f. But not to worry—this one will be shorter, as these three phonograms...
I’ve been a huge advocate of parents teaching their children to read for decades now. But I rarely find parents who are willing to undertake the huge but rewarding task of teaching a child to read...
As a reading evangelist, I’m always thrilled to hear about the positive impact of effective reading instruction. Recently, a mother shared her experience with my tutoring program, and her story...
I’ve always suggested to parents that are teaching their children to read or when I’m tutoring their children that they should use Bob Books for beginning reading. They are great stories...
Recent literature on learning challenges the conventional wisdom about failure. While I’ve traditionally advised my students against reading material significantly beyond their level to avoid...
I’ve told the story many times about how I discovered the world of the phonograms. In this blog post I’ve gone back to 1996 and pulled out some evidence of what drove me to start using the phonograms...
I’ve been reviewing my posts from the 1990s in a newgroup called misc.education the last few days. It has been interesting to read the discussions about reading back then. That was the heyday of the...
I want to share two resources that even after 30 years of teaching reading reinforced my beliefs and taught me some things that I did not know. I’ll share each of them and include a few...
I’ve written a lot of stuff over the years related to teaching reading. I’ve noticed a push lately to discuss how teachers aren’t really taught in teacher school how to actually...
I recently came across an article about The Matthew Effect as it applies to reading for beginning readers. This effect explains a lot of my beliefs about the importance of teaching your child to read...
Below is T.R. Sebastien’s response to a question at Quora about teaching your child to read. I have very strong beliefs on why parents should teach their children to read, but loved Tee’s...
This post is from the reading blog on a previous site. As you read it you may notice I hadn’t yet learned the term “orthographic mapping.” I just didn’t really have a way to...
Ella is our third daughter. She is truly a miracle child who came to us almost 12 years after what we thought was our last child. She has been a blessing for many reasons, but one of my favorites is...
This is my first blog post and I’m making it about orthographic mapping. If you’ve read my site you know how much importance I assign to orthographic mapping. You should start preparing...
